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n.
  1. A signal or command to extinguish lights for the night.
  2. Bedtime.

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Leave hastily, run away, as in Here comes the teacher--let's light out. This slangy idiom may allude to the nautical sense, that is, to move or lift anything along. [Slang; mid-1800s]


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Definition: run away
Antonyms: stay, wait


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IN BRIEF: n. - (military) signal to go to sleep; A prescribed bedtime.

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Lights Out may refer to:

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Athletes nicknamed Lights Out

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See also

  • Earth Hour, a global event to increase awareness of climate change

 
 
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